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The International Academy of Humanism was established to
recognize distinguished humanists and to disseminate
humanistic ideals and beliefs. The members of the
academy, listed below:
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are devoted to free inquiry in all fields of human
endeavor,
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are committed to a scientific outlook and the use of
the scientific method in acquiring knowledge, and
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uphold humanist ethical values and principles.
The academy's goals include furthering respect for human
rights, freedom, and the dignity of the individual;
tolerance of various viewpoints and willingness to
compromise; commitment to social justice; a
universalistic perspective that transcends national,
ethnic, religious, sexual, and racial barriers; and
belief in a free and open pluralistic and democratic
society.
Humanist Laureates
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Pieter Admiraal (MD—Netherlands)
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Shulamit Aloni (Minister of Education—Israel)
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Ruben Ardila (Univ. de Colombia—Colombia)
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Margaret Atwood (author—Canada)
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Kurt Baier (Univ. of Pittsburgh—USA)
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Etienne Baulieu (French Inst. of Health & Medical
Rsch—France)
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Baruj Benacerraf (Dana-Farber Cancer
Institute—USA)
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Elena Bonner (human rights advocate—Russia)
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Jacques Bouveresse (Collège de France—France)
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Paul D. Boyer (Univ. of California, Los
Angeles—USA)
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Mario Bunge (McGill Univ.—Canada)
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Jean-Pierre Changeux (Collège de France—France)
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Patricia Smith Churchland (Univ. of California,
San Diego—USA)
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Arthur C. Clarke (author—Sri Lanka)
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Richard Dawkins (Oxford Univ.—UK)
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José M. R. Delgado (Univ. of Madrid—Spain)
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Daniel C. Dennett (Tufts University—USA)
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Jean Dommanget (Royal Observatory—Belgium)
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Ann Druyan (author, lecturer, producer—USA)
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Umberto Eco (Univ. of Bologna—Italy)
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Luc Ferry (Sorbonne—France)
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Antony Flew (Reading Univ.—UK)
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Yves Galifret (Union Rationaliste—France)
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Johan Galtung, (Univ. of Oslo—Norway)
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Murray Gell-Mann (Nobel Laureate, Sante Fe
Inst.—USA)
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Vitaly Ginzburg (Moscow State University—Russia)
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Rebecca Goldstein (author, professor, Trinity
College—USA)
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Adolf Grünbaum (Univ. of Pittsburgh—USA)
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Jürgen Habermas (Univ. of Frankfurt—Germany)
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Herbert Hauptman (Nobel Laureate, State Univ. of
New York—USA)
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Margherita Hack (astronomer,
astrophysicist—Italy)
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Alberto Hidalgo Tuñón (Univ. de Oviedo—Spain)
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Christopher Hitchens (author, lecturer—USA)
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Donald Johanson (Inst. of Human Origins—USA)
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Sergei Kapitza (Moscow Inst. of Physics and
Technology—Russia)
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George Klein (Karolinska Inst.—Sweden)
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György Konrád (author—Hungary)
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Sir Harold W. Kroto (University of Sussex—UK)
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Ioanna Kuçuradi (FISP—Turkey)
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Thelma Lavine (George Mason Univ.—USA)
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Richard Leakey (activist and
conservationist—Kenya)
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Jean-Marie Lehn (Université Louis Pasteur—France)
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Elizabeth Loftus (professor, Univ. of
California/Irvine—USA)
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José Leite Lopes (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas
Fisicas—Brazil)
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Adam Michnik (author—Poland)
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Jonathan Miller (OBE, MD, author—UK)
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Taslima Nasrin (MD, author—Bangladesh)
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Elaine Pagels (professor, Princeton Univ.—USA)
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Steven Pinker (Harvard Univ.—USA)
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Dennis Razis (MD—Greece)
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Marcel Roche (Inst. de Investigaciones
Científicas—Venezuela)
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Salman Rushdie (author, MIT—USA)
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Fernando Savater (philosophy educator—Spain)
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Peter Singer (Princeton Univ.—USA)
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Jens Chr. Skou (Univ. of Aarhus—Denmark)
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J. J. C. Smart (Australian National
Univ.—Australia)
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Wole Soyinka (Nobel Laureate, author—Nigeria)
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Barbara Stanosz (Inst. “Ksia˛z·ka i Prasa”—Poland)
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Jack Steinberger (physicist—Switzerland)
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Svetozar Stojanovi´c (Univ. of
Belgrade—Yugoslavia)
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Thomas S. Szasz (State Univ. of New York—USA)
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Sir Keith Thomas (Oxford Univ.—UK)
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Rob Tielman (Univ. of Utrecht—Netherlands)
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Lionel Tiger (Rutgers Univ.—USA)
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Neil deGrasse Tyson (scientist, Hayden
Planetarium—USA)
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Mario Vargas Llosa (author—Perú)
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Simone Veil (former president, European
Parliament—France)
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Gore Vidal (author—USA)
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Mourad Wahba (Univ. of Ain Shams—Egypt)
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James D. Watson (author, biologist—USA)
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Steven Weinberg (Univ. of Texas, Austin—USA
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Harvey Weinstein (co-founder of Miramax—USA)
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G. A. Wells (Univ. of London—UK)
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Edward O. Wilson (Harvard Univ.—USA)
Deceased
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George O. Abell
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Steve Allen
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Isaac Asimov
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Sir Alfred J. Ayer
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R. Nita Barrow
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Sir Isaiah Berlin
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Brand Blanshard
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Sir Hermann Bondi
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Bonnie Bullough
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Bernard Crick
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Francis Crick
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Milovan Djilas
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Paul Edwards
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Sir Raymond Firth
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Joseph F. Fletcher III
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Betty Friedan
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Stephen Jay Gould
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Sidney Hook
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Lawrence Kohlberg
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Franco Lombardi
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Jolé Lombardi
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André Michael Lwoff
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Paul B. MacCready, Jr.
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Ernest Nagel
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Conor Cruise O’Brien
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George Olincy
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Indumati Parikh
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John Passmore
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Octavio Paz
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Chaim Perelman
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Sir Karl Popper
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W. V. Quine
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Max Rood
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Richard Rorty
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Carl Sagan
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Andrei Sakharov
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Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
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V. M. Tarkunde
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Richard Taylor
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Sir Peter Ustinov
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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Lady Barbara Wooton
Secretariat
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Paul Kurtz
(Founder, International Academy of
Humanism; professor emeritus of philosophy, SUNY at
Buffalo; Chairman ISHV -- USA)
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Valerií A. Kuvakin (Moscow State Univ.--Russia)
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Gerald A. Larue (Univ. of Southern
California--USA)
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Jean-Claude Pecker (Collège de France--France)
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